"To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy."

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Source : Edna Buchanan (2009). “The Corpse Had a Familiar Face”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

Edna Buchanan

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“Only little boys and old men sneer at love.”
“Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.”
“Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.”

Source : 1946 How to be an Alien.
“She was only a year old, but elves grew up fast. Not like witches, who Jenks swore were not able to be on their own until they were thirty. Ahem.”
“That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.”
“We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.”
“Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.”
“On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.”

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